Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:34:52 -0600 From: Kyle Butt <kylebutt@myrealbox.com> To: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" <siegfried.pietralla@eds.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: files to files with .txt Message-ID: <20020802173452.A368@kylebutt.dorms.usu.edu> In-Reply-To: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0AD5@AUSYM103>; from siegfried.pietralla@eds.com on Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:58:20PM %2B1000 References: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0AD5@AUSYM103>
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:58:20PM +1000, Pietralla, Siegfried P wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Mills [mailto:jmmills@telocity.com] > > Sent: Friday, 2 August 2002 12:07 > > To: Maciej Szewczyk > > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: files to files with .txt > > > > > > Hello - > > > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Maciej Szewczyk wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I have about 1000 files. > > > ls -1 > > > 1 > > > 2 > . > . > . > > > And now I must have 1000 files with .txt -> > > > ls -1 > > > 1.txt > > > 2.txt > . > . > . > > > > DISCLAIMER - This is on-the-fly - you'll probably need to > > tune it and/or > > correct it. Of course you could just write it as a [bash] > > script. Get the > > form right _without_ the 'mv' line, and if possible save a > > copy of your > > directory before you munge the real files. > > > > $ ls > ../1000_files > > $ for FILENAME in `cat ../1000_files` > > > do > > > echo "Renaming $FILENAME to $FILENAME.txt" > > > mv $FILENAME $FILENAME.txt > > > done > > Renaming 001 to 001.txt > > .... > > > > $ > > > > - John Mills > > i've found that the easiest ( and least typing ) way to check stuff like > this is to : > > for i in * ; do echo mv $i $i.txt ; done > > to see what you're going to get, then just append " | sh " ; or just remove the echo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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